She said of the film franchise: “It’s nice that audiences are interested in seeing a movie of misfits and girls of different shapes and sizes.”

Kendrick has previously complained about inequality in the film industry, saying that she had to “wait for all the male roles to be cast before I can even become a part of the conversation”.

But she told Harper’s Bazaar that things could be changing, saying: “This year I’ve done a bunch of movies where I was the first person cast – even if I wasn’t the lead character and there was a male lead which was a bigger role – it’s just anecdotal, and just this year, but it was nice.”